But clearly on display Friday night, as his team met the Boston Red Sox at Dodger Stadium, was the power of some of Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti's best trades.

The Dodgers rode Ricky Nolasco's dominant pitching and Hanley Ramirez's two-run, 409-foot home run off John Lackey to a 2-0 victory over the Red Sox in a showdown of two of baseball's best teams.

Nolasco's 10th victory (he's 5-1 as a Dodger) gave him double-digit victories for a sixth consecutive season. Since 2008, only Justin Verlander, C.C. Sabathia and teammate Zack Greinke can match the right-hander Colletti obtained from the Miami Marlins on July 6.

Nolasco allowed just two hits over eight innings, struck out six, walked none and hit a batter. Kenley Jansen struck out two in the ninth for his 22nd save in 25 tries.

The Dodgers are 29-6 since the All-Star break, and lead the Arizona Diamondbacks by 10 1/2 games - their largest divisional advantage in 36 years. The Red Sox are only 17-17 since the break, and are feeling the heat from the close-pursuing Tampa Bay Rays.

Ramirez, one of four ex-Red Sox in the Dodgers lineup (all obtained in various Colletti trades) had never faced Boston right-hander Lackey before Friday.

The Dodger shortstop flied out to right in the second, but in the fourth connected for his 13th homer, to center field with Carl Crawford aboard, to break the scoreless tie in a pitching duel between Nolasco and Lackey (8-11).

Crawford, acquired with Adrian Gonzalez in last year's blockbuster nine-player deal with the Red Sox, had two hits and stole two bases against his former employers.

He's 23 for 48 against Lackey, the longtime Angel who came in with a 5-2 record and 1.89 ERA in 10 previous starts against the Dodgers.

Three hits were all the Dodgers could manage in eight innings against Lackey, who went eight, struck out six and didn't walk a batter.

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